“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.” ~ Robert Frost

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Erratum
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Erratum

Whenever you write and publish a book, you do your best to get it right. Make it as perfect as possible. It’s really difficult to accomplish that, even with the best of editors, which I had while putting Adventures in the Radio Trade together.

Since the book’s publication I have become aware of a few little glitches. The following errors, typos and omissions were all my fault, introduced after the substantive edit of the book, or simply not the sort of thing an editor could catch.

The beauty of owning your own publishing company, which I do, means that one can fix such glitches with relative ease.

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Adventures in Feedback
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Adventures in Feedback

One of the scary parts of releasing a new book such as Adventures in the Radio Trade into the wild is you don’t know how it’s going to be received. Whether people will understand what it is you’re trying to do, whether they will like how you’ve done it, whether they’ll even care. Crickets is almost worse than no feedback at all.

So it’s gratifying, and a bit of a relief, when positive feedback does start rolling in.

Here’s an email I received yesterday (reprinted here with permission) from veteran freelance writer/broadcaster John Pellatt, who shares a great story of his own about CBC Radio legend Allan McFee.

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